Sustrans are proudly partnering with Welcome to Our Woods to bring its successful community e-bike borrowing project, E-Move, to the Rhondda Fawr valley in South Wales. The project, made possible thanks to funding from the National Lottery Community Fund, will run for a year with people in the Treherbert and Treorchy area able to borrow an e-bike or e-cargo bike for free.
E-Move comes to Treherbert and Treorchy thanks to this new project in partnership with Welcome to Our Woods. Credit: Sustrans.
Thanks to a new partnership with Welcome to Our Woods and funding from National Lottery Community Fund, the E-Move e-bike borrowing project is coming to the Rhondda Fawr valley.
The E-Move project, having run successfully in other parts of Wales over the past few years, enables people, businesses and organisations to try an e-bike for free.
Individuals can borrow an e-bike for a period of four weeks, at no cost, while businesses and organisations can borrow an e-cargo bike for three months.
E-Move making e-bikes accessible to more people across Wales
This version of the E-Move project will run out of Treherbert for a year, thanks to a new partnership with Welcome to Our Woods.
One of the aims of the project, alongside making e-bikes more accessible to the everyday person, is to help encourage multi-modal travel in the Welsh valleys.
E-bikes offer a lot of benefits, one of which is making hills a lot easier to cycle up.
Other benefits from the delivery of E-Move across Wales have included improved feelings of health and well-being, improved confidence and changes in travel behaviour.
Businesses have reported quicker journey times, money saved on fuel and improved morale among employees.
A fun and sustainable mode of transport
“We love the E-Move project because of what it gives people, an opportunity to experience a mode of transport that is fun but sometimes prohibitively expensive,” said Charlie Gordon, Project Manager at Sustrans.
“The project makes e-bikes available to people to borrow for free, so anyone living locally can sign up and borrow a bike that they might not otherwise have used.”
“We’ve got e-bikes that suit all kinds of different needs – fold-up bikes that are ideal for commuting on the train, step-through bikes that are easier for accessibility, all the way to e-cargo bikes that can be used to carry big loads.”
The E-Move project in Treherbert will be running out of the Old Library on Bute Street until May 2026, with Sustrans staff on-site on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
For more information about the project or to express an interest in borrowing an e-bike, get in touch with Sustrans’ staff.
